Hook for attaching hose-supporting pads.



No. 7ll,657. I Patented Oct. 2|, I902.

v M. H. EISEMAN. HOOK FOR ATTAOHING HOSE SUPPORTING PADS.

(Application filed Oct. 11. 1901.)

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MOSES H. EISEMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOOK FOR ATTACHING HOSE-SUPPORTING PADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 71 1,657, dated October 21, 1902.

Application filed October 11, 1901. Serial No. 78,363. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MOSES H. EISEMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks for Attaching lFIose-Supporting Pads to Corset-Fastening Posts, of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming a part hereof, is a full and complete description sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to understand, make, and use the same.

This invention relates to devices for removably attaching one article of apparel to another; and the object of the invention is to obtain a hook which may be permanently attached to a hose-supporting pad, and which may be readily attached to and detached from a corset-fastening post, and which will not be liable to become accidentally detached from such post while being worn.

To obtain the objects sought by me I construct a hook from sheet metal in the manner about to be described, thereby obtaining a double spring-hook engageable with a corsetpost and a base to which a hose-supporting pad may be attached, as by a strip of woven fabric- In the drawings referred to, Figure 1 is an elevation of a corset, a hose-supporter provided with a pad, and a hook embodying this invention securing the pad to one of the posts of the corset. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a blank of sheet metal from which the hook embodying this invention is formed up. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the hook embodying the invention, and Fig. 4: is a side elevation or edge view of such hook.

A reference-letter applied to designate a given part is used to indicate such part throughout the several figures of the drawings wherever the same appears.

A is a corset.

B B arepos'ts forming part of the corsetfastenings.

D D are hose-supporters, (1 being the end thereof attached in the ordinary manner to the hose of the wearer, and d the pad of such hose-supporter.

. E is the hook embodying this invention, attached to the pad (1 by means of woven fabric F, passing around the bar 9- of the base of hook E, and in Fig. 1 attached to one of the posts B B of the corset by springing the arms .6 e over such post in a manner hereinafter inbefore set forth, to secure such hook to they pad d". The blank E is also made with the hook-arms e e, standing relative to each other in the blank in substantially the position illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings and with the sides of the slot in the base which are opposite to the bar e joined together at an obtuse angle and to the bar e by rounded corners, respectively, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

e e are the hooked ends of arms e e, and such arms a e are forced together at the hook end thereof untilsuch hooks e e are superimposed upon each other, as illustrated in Figsafland i'of the drawings. The inner edges e of the hooked arms e are curved, substantially as is shown in Fig. 2, so that when the hooked arms 6' e are forced together, as above described, in substantially the position illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4'there are obtained the slot 6 of slightly less width than the diameter of the corset-posts to which the hook is designed to be attached, the enlarged lower end opening 6 which opening is slightly larger than the head of the corsetpost to which the hook is designed to be attached, and the enlarged upper end opening a, which is slightly larger than the diameter of the corset-post.

To attach the hook to a corset-post,the hook is placed over such corset-post,so that the head of the corset-post passes through aperture e. The hook is then drawn downward, so that the corset-post moves upward through slot 6, slightly springing the hook-arms e e outward in such passage of the post through the slot, because of the diameter of the corset-post being slightly larger than the width of the slot. The hookis' then drawn downward until the corset-post is in aperture e and since this aperture is slightly larger than the body part of the corset-post the hook will turn easily thereon; but because of the body part of the corset-post being of greater diameter than the Width of the slot e and the head of the corset being of greater diameter than the fenlarged end aperture e such hook is not liable to become accidentally detached from such post. To remove the hook from such post, the reverse of the operation by which the hook is placed on the post is effectedthat is, the hook is forced upward on the corset-post until such post is in the enlarged aperture 6 when it can be taken 06 of the corset-post by bringing the head thereof through such aperture.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In hooks for attaching hose supporting pads, a blank comprising a base and hooked arms respectively provided with a slot Whereof the sides adjacent to the hooked arms are shorter than the remaining side and joined at an obtuse angle and such shorter sides are joined to such remaining side by rounded corners, and such hooked arms substantially at right angles to the shorter sides of the slot, respectively, so that, when the hooked ends of the arms are forced together to superimpose the hooks the shorter sides of the slot are forced into substantially a straightline and the slot is two-sided with rounded cor- 11ers; substantially as described.

(301m A. ADAMS, CHARLES TURNER BROWN. 

